Example sentences of "i [verb] not [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 2 | I do not vote for him , of course . |
| 3 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 4 | Well , I do not fish for medals , I fish for pleasure , and while my mates like to net my fish as I like to net theirs , I care very little about petty-minded , selfish ‘ rules ’ . |
| 5 | I do not suggest for a moment that I have described every interesting object within binocular range , but I think that there is enough variety here to satisfy most people . |
| 6 | They called the film they made about me Too Long a Winter , and I have to declare immediately that I do not care for winter at all , for neither mind nor body agrees with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not care for firearms , Mr D'Arcy . |
| 8 | Is that the way you like writers to be described ( I do not care for it much myself ) ? |
| 9 | But the plain fact is that I have had a devilish run of ill luck , and I do not care for Thompson 's tariff . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 11 | I do not mourn for Mr. Fyfe , but is he to be branded a dishonest man because of the Government 's insensitivity in railroading through these unwanted applications ? |
| 12 | He said , ‘ I think I ought to tell you that I do not grieve for my mother . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do not go for the peaked caps , epaulettes and dummy holsters , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 15 | I do not apologise for raising the matter on more than one occasion in interventions and again in my own speech . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report . |
| 17 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 18 | I do not ask for sex right away . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not imagine for a minute that someone of your ability will have come here without prying into my background . |
| 20 | I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure . |
| 21 | No criticism of the appellants is to be made in that respect because , alive to the problem , they had applied to the registrar for directions ; it was as a result of his directions , which I do not question for a moment , that the appeal came before this court . |
| 22 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 23 | I do not believe for a moment that , with unemployment heading towards three million , the benefits would be significantly dissipated by higher inflation , any more than were the benefits of depreciation in the early 1980s . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | I do not believe for a moment that in the future we shall allow millions of our fellow-countrymen , through no fault of their own , to pass through life ill-housed , ill-clothed , ill-fed , ill-educated . |
| 26 | I will return to this point later on , but I do not apologize for emphasizing it , because tragedies have occurred in the past . |
| 27 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 28 | This is not just a ‘ Paint Program ’ but a great tool for all and I am no professional ; although a knitter all my life , I do not work for others . |
| 29 | I do not deny for a moment that about 0.01 per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not fear for them , ’ he said . |